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Among Empires

Charles S MAIER

Charles S MAIER ... I am indebted to Pauline Maier for this reference. 3. Cited in Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995), p. 40. 4. Foremost among defenders of the ...

Once Within Borders

Charles S. Maier

At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Charles Maier explores the fitful evolution of territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the ...

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German ...

Charles S. Maier

Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles Maier writes that the historians' controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the ...

Leviathan 2.0

Charles S. Maier

Charles Maier's Leviathan 2.0 updates this classic to explain how modern statehood took shape between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, before it unraveled into the political uncertainty that persists today.

Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Charles S. Maier

This book is further bolstered by Maier's extensive knowledge of European history and the Cold War, his personal observations and conversations with East Germans during the country's dramatic transition, and memoirs and other eyewitness ...

The Rise of the Nazi regime: historical reassessments

Charles S. Maier

The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings: A Five-Generation ...

Thomas Maier

Released to coincide with a documentary adapted from the book, this edition features a new preface, in which Maier explores the dynamics of the three brothers, Ted Kennedy’s legacy, and the 2008 presidential elections that have been ...

The Old Revolutionaries

Pauline Maier

" In telling the stories of these men, Pauline Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a committment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently, and she describes "not just ...

From Resistance to Revolution

Pauline Maier

Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence ...

Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical ...

N. Pizzolato

CharlesS.Maier, “The PoliticsofProductivity: FoundationsofAmerican InternationalEconomic Policy afterWorldWarII,” in CharlesS.Maier, InSearch of Stability.Explorations in HistoricalPolitical Economy (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, ...

Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and ...

Thomas Maier

Highlighting interviews with the notoriously private Masters and the ambitious Johnson, critically acclaimed biographer Maier shows how this unusual team changed the way people thought about sex.

Bottega Veneta: Art of Collaboration

Thomas Maier

This richly illustrated book features some of today's brightest visionaries working in fashion photography, interpreting Bottega Veneta's modernist aesthetic and material elegance. In 2005, Bottega Veneta's creative director, Tomas Maier ...

Ethnicity, Identity, and History: Essays in Memory of Werner ...

Joseph B. Maier

Werner. J. Cahnman: An. Introduction. to. His. Life. and. Work. Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman Many social scientists regard system-building as the chief mark of genuine scholarship. Werner Cahnman's achievement was of a different ...

The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

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Charles S. Maier This volume seeks the reasons for the difficulties of the industrial economies that persisted from the late 1960s at least through the early 1980s. It presents not primarily the views of economists but incorporates the approaches ...

Weber and Toennies: Comparative Sociology in Historical ...

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Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, “Werner J. Cahnman: An Introduction to His Life and Work,” in Joseph B. Maier and Chaim I. Waxman, eds., Ethnicity, Identity, and History. Essays in Memory of Werner J. Cahnman (New Brunswick, ...

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, ...

Charles S. Maier

Jacqueline Jordan, Laura Margolis, Marcia Fernald, Susan Carlson, and Patricia Brennecke assisted with manuscript preparation. As editor, Lewis Bateman proved an encouraging disciplinarian. Elizabeth C. Moore took it upon herself to aid ...

Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

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Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin ... Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin Nathan Stoltzfus is the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University and the ...

One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II

M. Todd Bennett

Mahl, Thomas E. Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939–1944. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1998. Maier, Charles S. Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade ...

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...

Transnationale Geschichte: Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien

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Charles S. Maier Transformations of Territoriality 1600-2000 Space, Place, Territory Recall, to begin, Max Weber's final, famous defmition of the state: "State is that human community, which within a given territory - and 'territory' belongs to the ...

The European Productivity Agency and Transatlantic ...

Bent Boel

Origins: The US and the "Politics of Productivity" The first major discussion of American foreign productivity policy was introduced by Charles Maier when he proposed the concept of "politics of productivity" as an explanatory framework for the ...